GNUstep Installation Process

GNUstep package creation automation project/process.

• What: This is a project to digitilize the process of creating GNUstep environment for a perticular OS platform to install/remove GNUstep easily thus encourge the deployment of GNUstep in corporate environment. And the pacakge creation process can be reproduced easliy by others with commands.

• Why: There are lots of time spent from experienced GNUsteppers to new GNUsteppers. Time should be spent on the GNUstep developement not on compling and packaging process.

Plan

• Introduce CPAM(Cross-Platform Application Management) tool implemented by TWW Inc. to GNUstep CPAD community
  • Cross-Platform is easier said then done becuase each platform's features are barriers for others.

• Release GNUstep package source implemented by TWW CPAM.
  • I will release a working package source for others to try and review.
  • The package soruces can generate native package format for RHAS rpm,Solaris pkgadd and HP-UX depot formats.

• Write tutorial on learning TWW CPAM.
  • I am willing to help/assist a few persons to get familliar with TWW tools if they promise me to write up what they learned in a tutorial article. As you can see I am really not good on documenation work.

• Integrate GNUstep developement process with TWW CPAM.

1. what are potential platforms?
   1. A. any platform that TWW tools(sbuilts,pbuitls and pkgutils) can run on.
2. what are their possibilities of installation?

1. how can installation be combined for several platforms (one installation package for more linux distros, for example)
   1. A.
2. how to distribute binary packages?
3. what should be in the binary package?
4. how should be the binary package installed? where? what should be configurable during installation?
5. how to cope with more than one GNUstep environments installed?

• More details TBA once I get familiar with mediawiki.

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 I just want to make above out of nohere text not treated as spam.
 My name is T.J. Yang(tj_yang at hotmail dot com), 
 I have been working as a system administator and I am intrested 
 to bring the work experience to work on this task. 
 Please email me if you have comment/questions. 
 
 For detail about TWW, please see http://www.thewrittenword.com, 
 I have used their CPAM at work to bring cross-platform open-source software support 
 nightmare under control. 
 All the TWW tools and sources of their supported packages are GPL open-source 
 free of charge but not their support labor.